Because my brother said so.
So where did the pizza-is-a-vegetable people go wrong? Well, that would be in the first and third premise that tomatoes are a.) a vegetable and b.) tomato paste contains tomatoes, and tomatoes only. Truth is, tomatoes are fruits. Shocker, I know but it's true. Secondly, tomato paste contains a host of ingredients found nowhere near the vegetable section (or in this case the fruit section) of the food pyramid: some of course being sugar, salts, and various other preservatives that most dietitians would not recommend to be consumed on a regular basis. If anything, at the very bare minimum, tomato paste would be considered a twisted, mutated form of what is seen by the scientific community as a fruit."
Therefore, pizza is again, not a vegetable. Thanks Kyle!
Guest post by my sophomore in college little brother Kyle. He's a total nerd studying bio-science and totally awesome.
"You don't need to have a graduate degree to understand the silliness of such a claim. Let's take lessons from a Logic 101 class and apply it to the situation. The pizza-is-a-vegetable people see the situation as follows.
Premise 1. Tomatoes are vegetables.
Premise 2. Vegetables are healthy. (This is considered to be a true premise by most self respecting health professionals.)
Premise 3. Tomato paste contains the ingredient tomato.
"You don't need to have a graduate degree to understand the silliness of such a claim. Let's take lessons from a Logic 101 class and apply it to the situation. The pizza-is-a-vegetable people see the situation as follows.
Premise 1. Tomatoes are vegetables.
Premise 2. Vegetables are healthy. (This is considered to be a true premise by most self respecting health professionals.)
Premise 3. Tomato paste contains the ingredient tomato.
*Therefore, tomato paste is a healthy vegetable.
Premise 4. Pizzas, in a traditional sense, contain tomato paste.
*Therefore, pizzas are healthy vegetables.
So where did the pizza-is-a-vegetable people go wrong? Well, that would be in the first and third premise that tomatoes are a.) a vegetable and b.) tomato paste contains tomatoes, and tomatoes only. Truth is, tomatoes are fruits. Shocker, I know but it's true. Secondly, tomato paste contains a host of ingredients found nowhere near the vegetable section (or in this case the fruit section) of the food pyramid: some of course being sugar, salts, and various other preservatives that most dietitians would not recommend to be consumed on a regular basis. If anything, at the very bare minimum, tomato paste would be considered a twisted, mutated form of what is seen by the scientific community as a fruit."
Therefore, pizza is again, not a vegetable. Thanks Kyle!
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